Nam's manga / #Nobility(20)

98–raid on the gambling house official begins as Nora and Jeremy each individually face their targets OFFICIAL--> http://bato.to/series/83291/the-fantasie-of-a-stepmother

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• 71 • Johannes and some thugs trap an unarmed Thisse • 67 • x • 65 • Giles decides to accept that his feelings are one-sided and move on; Chloe decides to be brave/honest about her feelings and visits Damien • 64 • (confusing ch) Damien and Giles box; Damien lets Gilles pummel him in order to prove to Gilles and Chloe both that Chloe still had feelings • 61 • Chloe/Claire tells Damien that his very touch repulses her BUT then he sees that Chloe still holds onto a locket w/ their marriage photo • 59 • Damien kisses Chloe at the dance and alludes to his aide that he may plan on gifting Chloe his own dead body if his plan [to have Chloe return to him on her own] fails 58; “Have you been having fun in a world without me?” 57, end of S2, Damien and Chloe see each for the first time since she faked her death 53, Damien, convinced Chloe is still alive, interrogates Gilles (who still believes her to be dead), the staff at Thisse, and the old Thisse steward, Eliza (who provided her with the corpse for the body switch and accurately guessed that Chloe was planning to run away); when Damien asks why Eliza helped, she like "uh, 'cause I'm human?" 51, drunk and half-mad in his misery, Damien digs up Chloe’s coffin and grows sus, ordering an investigation into the passengers who left Thisse by train the day of Chloe’s death 50, 2 months have passed and Damien is now king, but he is mad with grief for his dead wife 49, Chloe fakes her death (burnt up in a cottage fire) and runs away (by her own merit, w/out Gilles's help); Damien grieves 47, Giles: “Run away with me” 46, Duke Thisse leaves urgently when a rebellion erupts in Swane, but makes sure to confine "the future queen," Choe, to the Duke's estate after she asks for a divorce 45, Chloe wants a divorce after her miscarriage 33, Chloe: "Let me ask you something, do you love me?" to her hubby/Grand Duke/Damien 9, they both fell on the bed > mc believes he hates her so she asks him what he wants from her, he's like 'you know what i want'

42 40; Cheon gets the concubine officially scolded by grabbing the king’s trout 39; Cheon rejects her ex-ex (from her previous self) in a letter; Cheon is on the war path after an inner palace concubine beats her maid 38; Cheon remembers that the emp has a body double and “realizes” the body double must be doing the x work on account of Teok/real emp being a eunuch and all 37; Cheon questions whether Teok/the emperor ever truly liked her upon hearing news of Concubine On’s pregnancy and seeing the (Imposter, but MC Chen doesn’t realize that) emperor hang onto the empress’s every word and giving the empress doe eyes

Unofficial - • 47 • Strategists arrives and they are relocated to the palace • 45 • it’s an attack by a large group of unknown elite assassins; Diarin is injured and loses consciousness, then wakes up topless in Ceres’s arms 44; Diarin admits she hasn’t experienced love so she can’t teach Ceres about it (though she tries to anyway); they return to find the mansion on fire 43; Diarin warns herself not to catch feelings; Ceres sees a marriage proposal and gets ideas • 42 • uh oh, Ceres is coming on full force and Diarin’s catching feelings • 41 • At the festival, Diarin and Ceres glimpse the second prince during the parade procession; Diarin asks Ceres about what he wants to do w/ his future • 39 • Ceres gets PTSD in the carriage to the festival • 38 • Diarin convinces Ceres to attend a festival with her to practice being in a public social situation before his upcoming banquet • 37 • Ceres comforts Diarin when he hears her crying on her return to the mansion 36 > Diarin gives her hard-earned money to her family’s dirt poor barony, only to have her mother decide to use it to buy a glass pen for Diarin’s brother who is, along with the her father, too noble to deign to work 35 > Diarin gains access to the heavily-guarded Ritual Library in order to research the ritual on ML’s body 34 > Diarin gets a summons stamped w/ a cross Official - 24

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18; Warrior margrave be politely pissed on FL’s behalf for her lack of carriage, not that Helene likely did anything wrong—just the stubborn stable master of the Annex who wouldn’t let the dowager duchess (FL) borrow one of the dead duke’s horses